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Adrian Piccoli, The Age, 30 Nov 2018. NAPLAN and the publishing of school-by-school reslts on the MySchool website started out as relatively harmless, but has turned into a wrecking ball for Australian education. Read the article here...more»

The Age, 27 Nov 2018. New analysis by Macquarie University has found that the area in which a student goes to school is one of the clearest predictors of Year 5 NAPLAN reading scores, painting a stark picture of Australia's socio-educational divide. Read the article here...more»

The Conversation, 16 May 2018. With calls for a review, many experts are calling the future of NAPLAN into question. Read the article here. (The warnings we placed on this site 10 years ago have come true.)...more»

Sydney Morning Herald, 6 May 2018. After 10 years, virtually everyone who actually understands NAPLAN opposes it. NAPLAN has not achieved its aims and damaged education in the process. Read the article here...more»

The Conversation, 16 April 2018. There has been an alarming drop in first preference applications for teacher preparation courses. There are at least 7 reasons why people don't want to be teachers any more. Read the article here...more»

The Age, 11 Apr 2018. Education Minister James Merlino joins NSW, Qld and SA in calls for a review of NAPLAN. Merlino has said, "There are too many issues surfacing and it has a detrimental impact on our education system." Read the article here...more»

Dr Les Perelman, ABC News, 9 Apr 2018. One of the world's leading education experts says NAPLAN writing tests are absurd and are turning Australian children into bad writers. Read the article here...more»

The Daily Telegraph, 20 April 2015. It's worth re-posting this article about the complete failure of NAPLAN. It fails the economic justification test (costing around $100 million a year). It fails good pedagogical standards. It fails the curriculum. It fails our students. Read the article here...more»

Yvette Berry, ACT Minister for Education and Early Childhood, 21 March 2018. Education ministers around Australia are looking at whether NAPLAN really is doing more harm than good. Read the article here...more»

The Australian Government Primary Principals Association (AGPPA) call on Federal and State governments to commit to a full and independent review of NAPLAN and the MySchool website. Read the article here...more»

ABC News, 15 Feb 2018. Some education ministers are pushing for changes to NAPLAN, believing it has strayed from its original purpose. Data is prized over potential, and obsessive reporting and league tables were leading parents to make errors of judgment. Read the article here...more»

Sarah Duggan, au.educationhq.com, 6 Feb 2018. Experts have joined Queensland's Education Minister in calls for a federal review of NAPLAN, casting doubt over the validity and usefulness of the standardised test. Read the article here...more»

Whitlam Institute, Western Sydney University, 23 August 2017. In the Whitlam Institute's latest Perspectives paper, Prof Justine Grønbaek Pors explains research showing that standardised testing and educational rankings continue to have adverse effects on children and young people. NAPLAN has moved us no closer to improved outcomes but has contributed...more»

EduResearch Matters, 7 August 2017. The focus on formal, regulated programs in reading and writing is having an enormous negative impact. There has been a narrowing of focus and a preoccupation with test results. Read the article here...more»

David Hornsby, 5 August 2017. The attached graph shows that PISA scores declined from the time NAPLAN testing began in 2008. A coincidence, or another sign that we now teach to the NAPLAN test rather than the curriculum?...more»

The Conversation, 2 August 2017. Why is anyone surprised that NAPLAN results hardly change? Students get better by being taught; not by being tested. Use the money for teacher professional learning instead of wasting it on unreliable tests once a year. Read the article here and also see the NAPLAN...more»

The Age, 4 July 2017. Private companies are gaining unprecedented access to students' data, drafting NAPLAN questions and producing teaching and learning materials, prompting fears that businesses are dictating the focus of public education and making millions. (And the tests have not improved learning - surprise, surprise!)...more»

Tulip Education Research Blog, 16 March 2017. NAPLAN reporting of student abilities is unreliable. The certainty of the "dots within the bands" is not matched by the maths. NAPLAN results don't include confidence intervals because then it would not be possible to locate a student in a particular band. Read the article...more»

The Age, 4 Feb 2017. Trump instinctively knows that clearly set-out arguments don't persuade. The method of argument required for students to succeed at NAPLAN doesn't work. We are going to need new techniques of telling the truth. Read the article here...more»